Elixir by Hilary Duff As the daughter of a senator, Clea has many advantages. However, she also has to deal with the fame that comes with it. She and her life long best friend, Rayna, are spending some time in Paris. They go to a party and Rayna leaves with a guy. Clea goes back to their hotel, not enjoying herself at all. She pulls out her camera and spends the rest of the night taking pictures (her late father had inspired this hobby). Clea falls asleep and dreams about her father dying in a burning hotel room. She wakes up to the news telling her the apartment building her friend is at caught fire. when Rayna doesn’t answer her phone, Clea gets a cab and calls her friend, Ben, to calm her down on the way. She arrives to find Rayna is safe and starts taking pictures. Back home in Connecticut, Clea starts going through the pictures she took. A knock on the door distracts her and she goes to answer it. Her mom sent irises to apologize for not being there to welcome her home. She goes to her dad’s office, but something doesn’t feel right, as though something has been moved or is missing. Ben, her international advisor, shows up and scares her, which in turn causes him to spill coffee all over himself. Rayna comes by to invite them to a welcome home parter her parents are throwing. When Clea returns home, she continues to go through her pictures. She notices that the same man is in all all of the ones that caught her eye, including one where he is floating in midair. She takes pictures around the room and check them to see him in a picture of her closet. Clea feels someone reaching for her throat and turns around to see that no one is there. After checking the closet, she goes to bed and dreams. She is a singer in a speakeasy. Eddie, the owner, owns her and just about everything else in Chicago, but she is in love with the piano player. When the cops come for a staged raid, she sneaks away to meet him. He accidentally calls her Olivia (though her name in the dream is Delia) while saying they should run away together. She forgives him, they kiss, and Clea wakes up. She realizes the piano player is the man in her pictures. Clea meets with Ben to get her assignments for work. She wants to take one in Brazil, knowing that is where her father went missing. She calls her mom for permission, but she insists they will discuss it later. That night, Clea’s dreaming continues. This time she is Anneline, an actress, but it is the same man pursuing her. While trying to replace the roses someone else sent her with his irises, he cuts himself on the thorns. Anneline checks his had, but finds nothing. He asks her to marry him. After accepting, Clea wakes up. The dreams continue every night with Clea being Delia, Anneline, Catherine, or Olivia (Renaissance painter in Italy). Each woman from a different time, but all wooed by the same man. Clea herself starts to fall in love with her imaginary dream date. When Rayna asks, Clea tells her about the dreams. When Ben asks, she tells him about the pictures. He demands to see them. After showing Ben her pictures, he takes Clea to her dad’s studio and shows her some of her father’s pictures of her. The man is in pictures of her from childhood on. Ben pulls out an old, large tome and Clea flips to her dad’s first marked theory: guardian angel. Ben points out the flip side: incubus. Clea laughs off the idea of an evil spirit biding his time to make horrible things happen to her. That night in her dreams, the man comes, but the romance is gone. She dreams of being the same women, but the dreams always end in horror. Ben also seems to be in the dreams and one includes the vials from her dad’s archaeological dig. As soon as they arrive in Rio, Clea and Ben go to GloboReach to talk to Dr. Pichard about her dad’s disappearance. They only additional information he is able to give them is that her dad was oddly serious that day. They head back to the city. Clea takes pictures of the Samba Parade as well as other events at Carnival. She and Ben dance on the beach with an obvious spark between them. As Ben is about to tell her something, they are separated by a crowd. While looking for him, she sees the man from her dreams. When the man sees Clea, he starts running. Clea takes off after him, but trips and looses him in the forest. She twisted her ankle and he comes back to help her. Ben arrives and tells her how to banish an incubus. As the man gets ready to leave them behind, Ben points out that he is wearing her father’s watch. The man, Sage, gives it to them and then walks away. Ben pulls out his phone to call the police, but they are attacked. Sage comes back to rescue them and they hide in a cave. Sage says the men are after him. Clea demands an explanation. Sage explains that Grant (Clea’s dad) came to him because he knows where the Elixir of Life is. With their combined knowledge, the two of them could retrieve it. They made plans to meet (Grant leaving Sage his watch), but Grant never showed up. Sage thinks one of two groups, the Saviors of Eternal Life or Cursed Vengeance, have her father and he is still alive. Ben and Clea agree to keep Sage with them because he won’t divulge what he knows. They decide to sleep in the cave until nightfall, when they will all go back to Connecticut to look through Grant’s research. Clea wakes up to the scratching noises Sage makes while he draws in the dirt a picture of a girl that looks like Clea. She checks his back for scratches that should’ve been left when she clawed him (during the rescue), but there is nothing. They go to Sage’s secluded tree house. He swaps out the contents of his wallet to take on a new identity. Clea heads for the bathroom, but instead sneaks into a room full of paintings of Sage and the women from her dreams (her past lives). She finds a stack of canvases that depict their deaths and four iris necklaces on the wall. There is an empty nail for hers. When Sage comes to check on her, she is in the bathroom throwing up. On their way back to the US, Ben and Sage bond over historical facts. Clea gets a hold of Rayna to pick them up from the airport. She explains the situation to her best friend, who informs her that the house is crawling with secret service agents for a luncheon her mom is holding. Rayna tells Clea’s mom that Sage is her new boyfriend. Clea and Ben sneak off to Grant’s studio while her mother’s friends grill the “new couple.” They find a password protected file on Grant’s computer and the password engraved on his watch. It leads them to Clea’s room, where her cribbage board hides coordinates for the Dark Lady’s last known descendant (who happens to share the Dark Lady’s name, Magna Alessandri). They are headed to a mall in Tokyo to find her shop, The Little Door. Rayna takes them to a hotel near the airport. Clea and her go to their room where Clea tells her everything. Rayna makes her promise not to think, but to act on feelings for the night. The guys join them in their hotel room for dinner and Clea concentrates on how she feels. She loves Ben, but when she looks over at Sage, he is the one she wants. Rayna gives them an excuse to be alone by sending Clea and Sage out for snacks. Clea asks how he keeps finding her. He says that her soul calls to him. They pull over and have six in the car. The next morning, Clea tells Rayna everything. She is excited to see Sage, but he gives her the cold shoulder. She tries to not let it bother her and focuses on finding her dad. They make it to the mall in Tokyo and eventually find a small door in the stairwell between floors. Clea opens it to find a tunnel. They follow it to find a room of antiques. Clea moves a beaded curtain to find a dead body that turns to look at them. She screams and passes out.

When Clea wakes up, Magda shows them all Sage’s past. He told Giovanni (Ben) about the Society and the Elixir of Life they protect. Giovanni tells a few friends of the riches and the Elixir. They get a group together to rob the Society. They kill everyone, including Olivia, who was there to get the group’s blessing to marry Sage. When the thieves discover that Sage is still alive, they make him drink one of three bottles of the Elixir. When they realize that it works, they torture him as a test of its strength and argue over how to distribute it amongst eight of them. Two men free Sage for his help in killing the others, but Sage kills them instantly He kills three more that come after him. The last three flee and their descendants become Cursed Vengeance. The Societies’ descendants become the Saviors of Eternal Life. Sage drain the remaining vials into the ground. Magda continues to show Sage finding Clea’s soul in subsequent lives and their horrible endings. Jamie (Ben) accused Catherine of being a witch because she left him for Sage. Anneline, the actress, went into hiding from a stalker at Sage’s request. Julian (Ben) leaked their location. The stalker found and killed her. Sage tried to stay away from Delia, but couldn’t. Richie (Ben) tried to get the mob boss, Eddie, to get over her with other women, but this lead to him finding out about Sage. He shoots them both in the head. Last, Magda shows Clea’s father after she showed him the same thing she just showed them. He goes to Sage to tell him he must die to break the cycle. Sage agrees. Magda gives Sage the means to kill himself. His soul will search for a new body. When it can’t find one, it will be painfully ripped apart. Magda breaks the spell that has kept her alive.

They hear people coming and decide to make a run for it. After Sage hot-wires a car and looses their pursuers in a high speed chase, they go to the beach so he can end his life. When he stops for supplies for the ritual, Clea uses his phone to inform the Saviors of Eternal Life where they will be. Sage starts the ritual while Clea watches. Ben has agreed to let them be alone. The Saviors arrive and Clea shouts out to them. They open fire and Sage is forced to stop and protect Clea. Ben see Clea get shot in the leg and runs towards her. The Saviors grab him and Sage trades his life for Ben’s. Clea is furious that Ben messed up again. Clea is taken to the hospital for her leg. When she is released, Clea and Ben decide to go home.

Blood Forever by Mari Mancusi Sunny wakes up in her old room, thinking that she is dreaming. She hears Rayne scream and goes to her sister. Rayne tells her that Hades has given them a second chance. It is one month before Sunny is bitten. Rayne explains that they are the only two that remember what happened. Sunny marvels at her twin’s sacrifice for her. The twins are having trouble fitting in at school. Sunny can’t stand her friend’s inane talk about lip gloss. The sisters promised to stay away from all things otherworldly, but once Rayne says that is the night she is supposed to meet Magnus for the first time, Sunny has other ideas. Sunny impersonates Rayne and goes to her sister’s vampire class. She meets Magnus, but he seems to be laughing at the gothed up recruits. Sunny turns to leave, but ends up falling down. Charity, one of Magnus’ donors, helps her out. Magnus comes over and charity introduces Sunny as his future blood mate, Rayne. The nights class will be a practice bite. Debating whether or not she can handle Magnus bitting her, Sunny thinks about how Lucifent is still alive and Magnus is not in charge of the Blood Coven. There is an instructional video staring Pyrus, and Sunny realizes that she and Rayne can’t allow him to stay in power over the Consortium. Rayne goes to Club Fang to find Jareth. She finds him on the dance floor and is pushed into him. He is a complete jerk like when they originally met the first time around. His girlfriend comes up and kisses him. Rayne freaks out, screams, and leaves completely embarrassed. Back at home, the twins admit that they went to see their significant others. Sunny explains that she wants to change the future for the better, and to get their boyfriends back. Sunny finds Magnus and tells him about the threat to Lucifent from Slayer Inc. He takes her to the coven master, but Jareth won’t let her see him without proof, especially since Rayne has been pestering him. Magnus says they should find proof. With some instructions from Rayne, Sunny and Magnus are able to break into Slayer Inc headquarters and find Lucifent’s file with orders to kill him. As they get ready to leave, Bertha shows up. Sunny and Magnus fight Bertha together, but the slayer is too much for them. Luckily, Mr. Teifert comes in and stops her from killing Magnus. He explains that Lucifent is a danger to the entire human race. Sunny and Magnus are to be held until the order is carried out. Down in a dungeon, Magnus lies bleeding from the silver plated knife Bertha stabbed him with. Sunny offers her blood and he drinks. He realizes she is special, but she’s not ready to tell the whole truth yet. Rayne has been waiting on Sunny for too long. She heads to Slayer Inc and finds Magnus’ car. Jareth is also there to check on Magnus and isn’t pleased to find Rayne. They agree to work together. Just as they enter the building, Jareth takes a call from his girlfriend. Rayne is furious, but they move on. Sunny falls asleep in Magnus’ arms and doesn’t wake up until Rayne and Jareth come to their rescue. They tell Jareth that Lucifent’s slaying has been moved up to that night. The vampires abandon the twins to go save their coven master. Sunny and Rayne make it to the cemetery that houses the coven’s entrance just in time to see them save Lucifent. The master kills Bertha and drinks her blood before spotting them. Sunny is worried that they messed up by letting Lucifent live as he talks about his plans. Sunny and Rayne are anxious about how they have changed the future, wondering what Lucifent’s Project Z entails. Magnus comes over to ask Sunny to go to Las Vegas with him and Lucifent to meet with Pyrus and the Vampire Consortium. He also wants to turn her right away. Sunny agrees to Vegas, but not to being rushed into the ranks of the undead. Especially since she hasn’t told him everything. Jareth comes to Rayne in a dream to warn her about Lucifent’s Project Z. She is attacked by zombies and he rescues her. He tells her that Hades is not happy because Lucifent and Pyrus will use the zombies to take over the world. Rayne goes to Slayer Inc to talk to Mr. Teifert. Her friend, Spider, answers the door, saying she is the next slayer and won’t let Rayne through. Rayne tries to get past Spider, but her friend’s stake shoots out flames. The front porch catches on fire and Spider freaks out. Rayne gets a fire extinguisher and puts the fire out. They make up. Spider takes Rayne to talk to Teifert. She tells him everything and he agrees to back Rayne going after the voodoo queen Jareth has been wooing to prevent her from raising the zombies. She agrees to take Spider at his request. Rayne and Spider sneak onto a plane Jareth and the voodoo queen are taking with a small horde of zombies. They do their best to fit in, but Rayne throws up when she is served brains. Magnus is preoccupied with Sunny. She gets frustrated and tells him everything. He thinks she is a spy and sends for guards. Rayne convinces Jareth to talk to her. She has him bite her which enables her to show him some of her memories, including his sister’s confession. Jareth is about to kiss Rayne when the voodoo queen, Glenda, catches them. Sunny is taken into a room with Pyrus, Lucifent, and Magnus. when she mentions the zombies being used to rule the world, Pyrus admits that is his plan. Lucifent is not going along with it, so Pyrus kills him. Magnus pretends to be loyal to survive and gets Sunny out of their. However, since Sunny mentioned that she is a fairy princess, Pyrus wants her as his blood mate. Glenda unleashes her zombies. They try to fight them off, but Jareth points out that Glenda is the only one who can stop them. Spider heads to the front of the plane and ends up bonding with the broken hearted zombie queen. Rayne gets to her gun and is about to fire when Spider steps in the way. Glenda calls off the zombies and offers to grant Spider one wish. Sunny is being held captive in a fancy suite with anything she could need. Magnus comes to see her, disguised as a waiter. She begs him to turn her and he obliges. Pyrus comes to the door and Sunny acts happy to see him. Sunny takes her walk down the aisle to Pyrus. She turns around and starts telling the present vampires of his plans. Pyrus bites her and realizes that she is already bonded. The other vampires try to help, but he has too many guards keeping them at bay. Rayne and Jareth arrive with Spider leading the zombies (her wish was to be the zombie queen for a day). They take Pyrus into custody to await trial. Sunny suggests that Magnus campaign to lead the Consortium. She also tells him that she wants to stay his blood mate. Jareth plans to turn Rayne. Pyrus is sentenced to eternal life in prison and Magnus is voted in for his job. Sunny, as his blood mate, is his co-leader. The twins parents are able to save the grandma so that everyone is safe from fairies. Rayne reintroduces their mom to David. Hades gives Magnus and Jareth their old memories. Jareth proposes to Rayne, who is starting a vampire college to inform people what really happens when you become undead. She continues to be the vampire ambassador to Slayer Inc, who continues to employ Spider.

Soul Bound by Mari Mancusi Rayne meets with Mr. Teifert. He tells her that he has a paying job for her from Slayer Inc. The Consortium has hired them to go after Magnus and Sunny. Mr. Teifert blares music to avoid being overheard by Pyrus’ spies. Slayer Inc wants to take out the Consortium leader, but they need to build a case and get support from other covens to avoid a war. Rayne needs to convincingly pretend to look for Sunny so that Pyrus doesn’t ask to terminate Rayne with the nano-virus. Rayne goes to Jareth to explain what is going on. After some convincing that Slayer Inc. ins’t all bad, he gives her his full support. Laying low, Rayne spends her time hiding in her Las Vegas room. The newly recovered and now gorgeous Bertha comes along to tell Rayne they are partners. Bertha is determined to prove that she is the best slayer in the world. Back at the Blood Coven headquarters, Rayne fills Jareth in on the new development. he shows her a picture of Bertha and Pyrus together. Rayne wants to warn Sunny, but Jareth thinks that will put them in more danger. He gives Rayne a bug to plant on Bertha. Rayne finds Bertha’s room at the Bellagio Hotel. She goes to put the bug in her bathroom when she discovers that Bertha has not fully recovered from her eating disorder. Bertha breaks down and Pyrus dumping her. She tell Rayne that he knows Sunny and Magnus are underground in New York. Rayne and Jareth get on a plane and go to New York. She admits that she forgot to place the bug on Bertha. They make their way through the sewers and tunnels beneath the city. Jareth leaves Rayne to rest while he searches for the underground community. Rayne is attacked by a chupacabra that is called off by an elderly vampire. She explains her story, but receives no help until Jareth comes along and gives him the password. Drake, the elderly vampire, takes them to his hidden coven. The inhabitants are barely surviving off of rat blood that Rayne forces herself to drink. Drake explains that he was Pyrus’ sire, but was forced to flee when he tired to stop his power from growing. Sunny appears and Rayne tells her the whole story. They wait for Magnus to return from a hunting trip. He is furious when he shows up. Magnus points out that Pyrus likes to plant trackers in clothes and the chupacabras find one on Jareth. Pyrus’ army of werewolf mercenaries descend on the coven. Magnus makes Rayne get Sunny out of there. They don’t make it far before Bertha appears. Sunny stops Rayne from killer her. Bertha slashes Sunny with an iron knife. Rayne is able to kill Bertha, but Sunny still dies. Rayne makes it back to the camp where she finds out Magnus gave himself up to save the others. Jareth is wallowing in guilt, wanting to be alone. Rayne wanders the streets of NYC and almost snacks on a woman, who is saved by her Race Jameson tattoo. Rayne thinks of rehab and calls her rockstar sponsor. Race picks up Rayne and helps her out. She fills him in and he leaves briefly. When he returns, he has his drummer with him, the Prim Reaper. He explains that Rayne might be able to convince Hades to release Sunny. Taking as much human blood from Race as she can carry, Rayne returns to the refugee coven to find Jareth. She convinces him to help her save Sunny, but he wants to be alone for eternity after they complete their mission. Prim and Race lead the way to the backyard of a condo where they will use a hot tub to enter Hell. Jareth shows his frustration with Race hitting on Rayne (which she takes as a good sign). Prim leads them to the River Styx only to be stopped by the ferryman, Charon, because they can’t pay for passage. Rachel, who saved Rayne and Corbin at the slay school, recognizes Rayne. he says Sunny had exact change to cross and points them in the direction of Torrid, the shore’s oldest resident. He suggests they might be able to charm Charon with music. Rayne forms a band and they are so awful that Charon agrees to take them across the river for free to make the stop playing. On the other side, they travel through a boring middle-America where souls wait to be judged. They take a bus to the pearly gates and Cerberus, the three headed dog, tells them they need to fill out a request to see Hades and will probably wait three years. Finding a place to stay is difficult because they are living. They run into one of Race’s groupies, who helps find Rayne’s dad’s address on “Hellbook.” A demon patrol finds and arrests them. Hercules comes along and rescues them. He takes them to Elysian Fields and instructs them how to find Rayne’s dad before going off to see his girlfriend, Persephone, who is also Hades’ wife. After a few moments of hesitation, Rayne knocks on her father’s door. She is reunited with him and Sunny. She fills them in on what has happened. Dad says he might be able to get them an audience with Hades. Jareth walks out. Rayne goes to talk to Jareth. He explains that slayers threatened to take out the entire vampire race if he tried to save his family. His hesitation cost them their lives. Rayne and Sunny make a plan to find them. Under the guise of taking advantage of being able to eat food, Rayne takes Jareth to his family. They welcome him and his sister, Sarah, explains that she can bend people’s wills, which is why he hesitated the night his family died. The demon patrol shows up and Jareth’s family hides him and Rayne in a secret room behind a book shelf. Jareth gives himself up to save his family from punishment. Rayne later brainstorms with Sunny and Race. She thinks that Persephone might free Jareth if they blackmail with her affair with Hercules. Persephone (Percy) is a sucker for love stories and agrees to help Rayne, who didn’t need to use blackmail. Jareth is set free and while he and Rayne reunite, Percy works on getting Hades to talk to them. When they meet Hades, he is enthralled with a video game Rayne is familiar with. She helps him through a level and then he is ready to talk. Hades explains that he can’t release Sunny, but he offers Rayne a do-over. They would go back in time and only the twins would have their memories. Rayne discusses her choice with Jareth. She decides to accept his offer. Sunny wakes up thinking she is dreaming of her past, normal life. Rayne tells her about the deal she made with Hades.

Blood Ties by Mari Mancusi Sunny is trying to fit in at her new school in Las Vegas. However, Magnus makes that really difficult when he picks her up in a limo. She gets in and he tells her he has to go check on a lead on Corbin and the bad part of Slayer Inc. Sunny wants to go with him. When Magnus refuses, Sunny flies out the sunroof and starts walking. She goes down a dark alley where she finds Jayden, who has been turned into a vampire. Sunny has Jayden drink from her in hopes that her blood will make him human again (because she has blood from the holy grail). Magnus finds them and threatens Jayden. Sunny has to beg her boyfriend to help Jayden. After loosing so much blood, Sunny passes out and wakes up in the hospital. Rayne visits, but leaves quickly when Magnus arrives. Sunny begs her boyfriend to help Jayden. A doctor show Magnus a chart. Sunny’s blood did help, but he needs blood straight from the grail. Magnus agrees to take Jayden (and Sunny incase he needs more of her blood on the way) to England. Magnus wants to spend the plane trip with Sunny, but she feels bad for Jayden when she hears his moans of pain. She goes to check on him and fills a bag with her blood for him. He drinks it and Sunny finds herself attracted to him. She accuses him of using vampire scent and goes back to Magnus, who explains that Jayden’s ability for the scent was removed before the left. They make it to England to find only one druid left alive. He tells them that the Alphas took the grail the previous day. Magnus decides that he will go to Japan and find the grail while he is there. Sunny will stay in England and help Jayden until Magnus returns. When they arrive at Vampire Manor, Sunny asks if Rayne can join them. Magnus explains that her fairy-vampire twin is going to Japan. Sunny asks for reassurance that Magnus will do all that he can to get the grail and he gets mad at her for not forgiving him. She tries to apologize, but Magnus threatens to break up with her before storming off. Sunny and Jayden are greeted by three female vampires. Elizabeth, Katie, and Susan flirt with Jayden and make fun of Sunny. She realizes how Rayne lost her temper and got kicked out during her visit. The master of the English Coven, Professor Lucedio, assures Sunny that Magnus will be fine after her boyfriend leaves without saying goodbye to her. Sunny realizes that she shouldn’t be jealous of Jayden moving on. Sunny can’t sleep and decides to unpack her things. Rufus, the butler, comes to get her blood for Jayden. She asks to see him, but Rufus tells her that she is restricted to her room at night to prevent accidents. She starts feeling sorry for herself. Sunny breaks her window and uses her wings to jump out the window and down to the ground. There is a guard dog that prevents her from running. Her wings are soaked from the rain, so she has no choice but to make a mad dash for an open window. The dog gets her ankle, but she makes it in. She finds Jayden learning how to feed on a donor with the three mean vampire girls. They point out that Sunny should be in her room, so she goes to hide in a parlor. People com in and her ankle starts bleeding again from the dog bite. Tanner, one of the Blood Coven’s body guards, tells Lucedio that they have to use a poison on Jayden to make his death look like an accident. Lucedio wants to finalize Jayden’s transformation, but Tanner says he is under orders from Magnus. They leave the room. Sunny shape-shifts into Elizabeth (who is knocked out in the blood cellar) and convinces Katie and Susan to leave her and Jayden alone. Jayden kisser her, but Sunny pushes him away to explain what is going on. They run to the car that Sunny stole the keys for and then drive away. She shift back into herself. Rayne sneaks Sunny and Jayden into Japan without the Blood Coven knowing. Sunny still hasn’t told anyone that Magnus is the reason they fled. Rayne takes them to a traditional Japanese hotel (which Sunny is not impressed with) and finds a bar where Jayden might be able to get some blood. They decide to get some sleep first. The next morning, they meet to go to the Vampire themed restaurant. They are very disappointed when the waiter doesn’t bring real blood. Sunny notices a group in the corner with uneaten cake and wine. The group starts whispering with sideways looks towards the twins and Jayden. Race Jameson, the rockstar, is among the vampires in the group. He comes over to flirt with Rayne and use his vampires scent on Sunny. Rayne was in rehab with him and is annoyed by the cocky rockstar, but he gives them an in to a blood bar. They are meeting Suki the next night. Back at the hotel, Sunny offers Jayden her blood. He drinks from her neck and she is overcome by the feeling. He stops when she cries out his name. Sunny begs him to take more. He refuses and calls her a crackhead before leaving the room. Sunny and Jayden make up and get some sleep. Rayne comes over to take them to Bite Club. They meet Amaya, who takes them through tunnels to the club. Sunny is nervous in the tunnels and Jayden holds her hand. When they arrive, Sunny is jealous that Jayden is going to bite someone else. Rayne convinces her everything will be fine. While waiting outside for her vampire companions, the Alphas arrive. The Alphas threaten the waiter for information, but Corbin comes along and sniffs out the secret passage. Sunny shape-shifts to look like an Alpha and goes in to find a massacre. Rayne starts to attack her. Sunny reveals herself to Rayne. The twins go their separate ways: Rayne to find Corbin and Sunny to help Jayden. Back at the hotel, Jayden declares his love for Sunny. She returns the sentiment. After they kiss, he tells her the whole truth of his situation. Jayden wanted to become a vampire to win Sunny. Corbin offered to turn him, but got interrupted during the process. Now the Alpha uses their connection to keep ahead of the Blood Coven. Sunny is furious. Sunny gets to the hotel the Consortium is at, but Magnus is not registered under his name. She calls Rayne, but someone else answers her lost phone. Marcia arrives and Sunny begs her to get Magnus. They go up to his hotel room and Sunny explains everything. Magnus calls her selfish, but realizes she just has a big heart. They agree to work together and go talk to the Consortium. When they go in front of the other vampires, they explain Rayne’s situation. Pyrus, the leader, is unhappy with Magnus because they were planning to trade Rayne to the Alphas for protection. Pyrus announces they are going to war against the Alphas. Magnus refuses until there is a vote, so Pyrus deems him unworthy to run the Blood Coven. Magnus decides they are going to do everything they can to save Rayne. Jareth has accepted the Blood Coven from Pyrus. He meets in secret with Magnus and Sunny to fill them in on the plan for war. The Consortium plans to bomb the Alphas while Rayne is still with them. Jareth suggests they find out if Jayden’s link to Corbin is two-way. Jareth hypnotizes Jayden so that he can get into Corbin’s mind and find their location. He also lets slip the secret about Sunny and Jayden’s kiss on the way. Disguised as Alphas (Sunny shape-shifts into Leanna) they make it into the temple. Corbin takes Sunny to Dr. Franken while her vampires are taken to join everyone else. They plan on making them all vampshees, but Corbin and Leanna have other plans. Unfortunately for Sunny, the real Leanna shows up. Sunny is tied up and Corbin reveals his plan to kill all of the Alpha’s with Rayne’s poisoned blood. He will then use the grail to become human again. When left alone, Jayden shows up and frees Sunny, but refuses to drink from the grail. Sunny takes a swig while he is searching Corbin’s mind. She kisses him and the liquid goes to Jayden. Sunny makes it into the big temple where she finds students from the slay school (that she and Rayne attended) waiting for their graduation. They have no idea what is actually going on. Sunny finds Magnus and Jareth. She tells them what she learned from Corbin and that she wants to save everyone. They only have one hour until the bombing will start. Sunny, Magnus, and Jareth listen to the slayers around them cheer at Roberta’s speech and Corbin’s introduction. Sunny notices that they start loosing the crowd when Roberta announces her plan to make them all vampshees. Sunny flies up to the stage and announces that Rayne was poisoned by Corbin in order to kill them all. Roberta proves this by making Leanna drink. Sunny, now credible to the slayers, also tells them Roberta’s plans for world domination. She has everyone start filing out of the temple while Jareth heals Rayne. Back in Las Vegas, Sunny says goodbye to Jayden. She and Magnus are wanted fugitives, so they are leaving everything behind. If they are caught, they will probably be killed. Rayne is back in Las Vegas. Mr. Teirfert has come out to help continue her training. He gives her an envelope with her latest mission: Slay Magnus and Sunny.

Night School by Mari Mancusi The twins sit in their dad’s apartment and listen to their parents explain the truth about their past. Their mom was a fairy princess and their dad was her body guard. They fell in love, but her parents disapproved. They ran away, had their wings surgically removed, and ended up with twins. Heather works in the fairy division of Slayer Inc. and helped them with identifies. When their grandma found them, she promised to leave them alone if their dad left. Their grandma died and now Sunny is supposed to rule. Sunny and Rayne go to a diner to be alone. Sunny keeps trying to call Magnus, but has no luck. When they get back to the apartment, their parents explain they are going to Fairyland and the twins will stay with Heather. Suddenly, there is a fairy at their window. The fairies attack and the adults suddenly have swords. They tell the girls to run, but instead Rayne grabs her stake and kills the leader of the fairy army. Their parents protect them, but their mom falls just before their dad blows glittery dust at them and everything goes black. Rayne wakes up and then so does Sunny. They are wit Heather in a boarding school for potential slayers, which is where they will hide until their parents have worked something out with the fairies. They have no access to their phones. Sunny can’t stop crying and Rayne ties to comfort her. A girl named Lili comes along to take them to the headmistress and shows them around on the way. Unlike the American division of Slayer Inc., this one is not very vampire friendly (stake first policy). Rayne will have to work hard to fit in, especially since she will be with slayers her own age. Sunny will be in the beginners classes. On the way back to the dorms, the twins are stopped by the Alphas (five kids at the top of the class with slaying experience). Rayne starts out with an attitude, but has to change her tune when they overpower her. They eventually make it back to their dorm room and Rayne unsuccessfully tries to comfort Sunny, who just wants to be a normal girl. Rayne decides to try kissing her elbows to become a fairy so Sunny won’t have to. Rayne wakes a reluctant Sunny up in the morning for class. When they get to the field, Sunny is sent inside with the beginners. Rayne is paired up with Corbin (the Alpha leader) for sparring. He attacks when she isn’t prepared and “bites” her. They switch roles and Rayne uses her training to pin Corbin. She has to stop herself from actually bitting him and a bit of her vampire scent escapes. Corbin recovers from the scent quickly and swears his revenge. During study hall, Rayne decides to use the library to her advantage and research fairies. She finds out how to become one and does the ritual. She ends up falling asleep and is woken up by the janitor. On her way back to the dorm, she tries to take a peek at the ominous “Night School,” but Headmistress Roberta comes along and sends her back to the dorms. Rayne later realizes the bag Roberta was dragging looked like a body and moved. Rayne wakes up with back pain and when she has Sunny check, they discover her wings are growing. Rayne explains why she did it. Sunny is determined they have to get out of there. The twins make an attempt at escaping the school, but are caught by the Alphas, who are having a mini-party. Sunny decides to use the opportunity to get information. A lot of the kids have tried to escape (even though they chose to be slayers) and no one has ever succeeded. When Corbin’s past (parents killed by vampires) comes up, he takes off, only returning when something is coming for them. Fairies attack and the twins and Alpha’s hold them back. Rayne is hurt saving Corbin and he hides her in a cave. He comes back after the fairies leave, excited about his first real battle (all previous were simulations). Rayne uses her scent on him and bites him so she can heal, hoping he will believe the fairies bit him. The next morning in training, Rayne finds out that she can’t lie. While sparring with Peter (another Alpha) she also realizes that she is getting her vampire powers. Sunny suddenly seems to be fitting in and crushing on Peter. Corbin pulls Rayne aside into the woods. He keeps getting closer so Rayne asks about his parents. THey were killed in a blood bar and when his grandma died, he was recruited by Slayer Inc. He starts coming on to Rayne again and she drinks his blood to stop him. Rayne can’t sleep. Sunny comes in late saying she hooked up with a random guy. A meeting is called at the chapel to inform the students of the vampire fairy that bit Corbin. They are going into lockdown and all students will be interviewed. Everyone is in the library. The twins are with the Alphas, but Rayne is overcome with guilt and leaves. Corbin follows her and comforts her. When he invites her to his room, she tells him she has a boyfriend. She begs for friendship and he accepts. They hug, but then he feels her wings and walks away. Rayne pulls Sunny away from a random guy to talk in private. She suddenly realizes that her innocent twin was replaced with a changeling the night of the attack. The fairies made a deal with Slayer Inc: Sunny for Rayne. Guardians come to seize Rayne with silver nets. Rayne wakes up tied down in a lab. Dr. Fraken and Roberta explain their plan to create an army of “vampshees” to take over the world using Rayne’s blood. They wheel in Corbin who will be their Adam to the new race. After being sedated, Rayne wakes up to find herself chained in a room with Corbin. She tells him the truth and he wants nothing to do with her. She explains that they plan on making him like her. Rayne sends out a psychic call for help and Lili opens the door. Lili identifies herself as Rachel, Magnus’ former blood donor, who has been working undercover. They get out, but Rayne sets off an alarm on the way. They head to the roof to get into the helicopter, but it only holds two. Rachel directs Rayne to were the Blood Coven is waiting and sacrifices herself so that Corbin can fly him and Rayne out of there. Corbin gets them safely to where Rayne can call Jareth, who can instantly tell that Rayne has bitten the Alpha slayer. He says that will be an issue, but Magnus comes over before he can explain why. Rayne tells him what is going on and Magnus decides they will rescue Sunny and then take down those responsible at the slay school. Magnus, Jareth, Corbin, and Rayne hop on a plane to Ireland. While the vampires sleep, Rayne goes to a local bar to ask questions. An old woman pulls her away from the bartender, scolding her for trying to trick him. Rayne explains that she is trying to get to Sunny in Tir Na Nog. The old lady says she is Rayne’s fairy godmother and can help. After a rant about why fairy godmothers look old, the lady gives Rayne directions to Tir Na Nog. She also mentions Sunny’s wedding dress and Rayne realizes they have to hurry. Rayne tries to wake Jareth by banging on the door, but has no luck. Corbin invites her into his room. She explains why he has feelings for her. He is torn and pulls out a stake. IN the scuffle, Rayne drinks too much of his blood. Jareth comes at her cry for help and has Corbin make a decision (vampire or death). He chooses vampire. Jareth will have his memory erased when they all get back to the Blood Coven. Rayne agrees to go to rehab. After Jareth explains the situation to Magnus, Rayne is only allowed to go with them because she is their only hope of finding Fairyland. They get to the cliff and after a little frustration, Rayne is able to make the gate appear. They open it and go inside. Fairyland is a Disney World replica filled with sunlight. Rayne and Jareth are the only two that can proceed. They get past the ticket booth by telling a dwarf that Rayne is Sunny. They decide to take the tunnels to the castle, but once down there, they are bested by Tinkerbell. Jareth and Rayne are put in separate cells. Jareth has silver chains on him to keep him down. Rayne’s parents are in the next cell over. Rayne calls out to Magnus for help. She tries to use her vampire scent on the dwarf guard, but has no luck. Francis and Magnus arrive to help them. Magnus gives Jareth some of his own blood to heal him before sending him back to the real world. They get pieces of the iron bars for the vampires to use as weapons against the fairies. They run into Apple Blossom (who Rayne had supposedly killed at the beginning of the book) and his fairy guard. Rayne ends up squaring off with him directly. Just as he is about to kill her, her dad throws one of the iron bars through him. Apple Blossom dies, but so does Rayne’s dad (iron poisoning). They interrupt the wedding, but Sunny doesn’t understand why until Magnus kisses her and breaks the spell she was under. Apple Blossom’s son is taken away fro his part in the conspiracy that killed the queen. The twin’s mom volunteers to lead the fairies and Heather will take care of the twins until they are eighteen. The twins are reunited at their dad’s funeral. Rayne’s rehab is going well and she had her wings amputated. Sunny decided to keep hers. Magnus are Jareth pull up and inform the girls that Corbin has stolen documents and is trying to get back at Slayer Inc before his memory could be erased.

Bad Blood by Mari Mancusi Sunny bugs Rayne yet again about her boyfriend issues. Magnus has been very busy and Rayne points out that Sunny needs to talk to him rather than sleeping with him to fix it. A friend calls and Sunny turns down a party invite. Magnus calls and they make plans to hang out in a hotel room after Sunny spends time with her family watching Rayne cheer. At the high school football game, Sunny sits in the stands to watch Rayne cheer. After the game, their mom and her boyfriend, David, leave. The twins’ vampire boyfriends show up. Just as they are all greeting each other, a girl comes up to them calling Magnus’ name. He says this girl, Jane, has been ruled to be his blood mate by the council. Rayne distracts jane so that Sunny can talk to Magnus. He says his blood mate relationship with Jane would be strictly business and not romantic. Sunny is furious and storms away. Sunny lies in bed with Rayne. She cries over her situation and Rayne tires to comfort her. Sunny convinces herself that Jane is part of an evil conspiracy. In the morning, Sunny has several apologetic voicemails from Magnus. She agrees to meet with him and he calms her down. Jane shows up and Magnus leaves them alone to talk. Sunny asks Jane a bunch of questions about Oxford (the university she claims to have gotten her degree at), but she can’t seem to get the right answers. However, Magnus refuses to listen to Sunny. Jane will become his blood mate in a ritual in Vegas. Sunny asks to go and Magnus refuses her request. Sunny fills in Rayne about her suspicions. They come up with a plan to go to Vegas under the guise of visiting their dad, which their mom seems oddly happy about. The twins arrive in Vegas and take a cab to their dad’s penthouse apartment. They are greeted by their stepsister, Crystal, who seems to have a bad attitude. They meet their stepmother, Heather, and a nerdy gamer girl named Stormy informs them she is their half sister. Sunny decides to get Rayne out onto the strip before she explodes. Magnus’ secretary recognizes Sunny and Rayne through their disguises (which consists of colored wigs). Rayne sends her on a mission to get something from Magnus’ hotel room. When she leaves, Rayne calls the hotel desk to say that she is breaking in before going to gamble. Sunny gets a showgirl costume to conceal her identity while spying on Jane. She is about to give up on the whole thing when she sees Jane walk out of a meeting and down the hall. Sunny follows far behind and sees Jane talk to a guy that is dressed like a cowboy. She knows something is up when they kiss and then part ways. Sunny decides to follow the Cowboy to a rundown casino that has a vampire review. A boy, Jayden, informs her they lost their leading lady and hands her the playbill. Jane is the one that has dropped out of their play. Sunny heads back to the strip to show Rayne the playbill. Rayne tells her to gather more evidence before she goes back to her blackjack game. Sunny heads back to the apartment and bonds with her stepmom. She goes to bed distracted by why Magnus hasn’t called her. Rayne finally shows up at five in the morning and wakes Sunny up. Realizing that her twin isn’t going to let her sleep, Sunny does some bonding with Stormy. Afterwards, she goes back to the old rundown Sun Hotel and watches a few awful auditions for the role of Mina in Dracula. She says she’s there to see Jayden and they beg her to do one performance. Shortly after she agrees, Magnus calls to yell at Sunny for coming to vegas and putting his secretary in jail. She tries to explain, but Magnus only offers her five minutes, which happens to conflict with her new rehearsal schedule. He refuses to heed her warnings and Sunny realizes she will always be treated like a child by Magnus. Sunny’s new actor friends, Jayden, Eric, and Allegra, take her around to see the sights of Vegas. There is a barter system in place for the locals, so they can do a lot in one day. Jayden takes her to a show that he helps out with. Sunny feels a little guilty for how much she likes hanging out with Jayden. Sunny is given a skimpy leotard for the dress rehearsal. Cornelius, Jane’s cowboy boyfriend, arrives and they start. When it comes time for him to bite Sunny, he starts sniffing her. He says that she is marked (from Magnus’ bite) and dismisses her from the play. Jayden tries to get him to reconsider, but Cornelius refuses. Jayden takes Sunny out to dinner and they have a great time. She is able to share intimate stories about her dad with him. She wants to let him kiss her, but knows she can’t. Jayden guesses that she has a boyfriend and walks her home. She realizes how miserable her relationship with Magnus is making her. Back at the apartment, Sunny asks Stormy for help hacking into Cornelius’ computer so that she can get Jane’s address. Stormy sends a Trojan virus that will take some time. Rayne comes along to find them goofing around. The twins go off and Sunny convinces Rayne to give their step family a chance. Sunny and Rayne bond with their new family. The next afternoon, Stormy wakes up Sunny to inform her that they have access to Cornelius’ computer. She gets Jane’s address and looks into his internet history. She prints out a screen capture showing his searches for Oxford University. Sunny asks Rayne to go with her to Jane’s, but Rayne is too busy with a poker game. Sunny hails a cab to go alone. When they got to the trailer park, Sunny pays extra for the driver to wait for her. She gets out and he takes off. She goes into Jane’s trailer and finds all the files pointing to her just being a jealous girlfriend. As it grows darker, Sunny realizes the railer park is inhabited by vampires. She sits in the dark waiting for the sun to come up when she sees a picture of Jane and her twin, Sasha. She then finds Jane’s death certificate. Cornelius shows up and explains that he has known what Sunny has been up to for a while. He brings Jayden into the trailer so that Sunny won’t try to escape. Cornelius leaves them alone for a few minutes and Sunny explains the truth to Jayden. They decide to use his emergency medical device to call for help, but Cornelius comes back and knocks it out of Jayden’s hand. Jayden cuts himself across the chest to distract Cornelius. Sunny turns on the stove and Jayden pushes the vampire onto the flames. Sunny grabs the device and pushes the button. She rides in the ambulance with Jayden and he tells her to go save the Blood Coven. Sunny barely makes it to the biting ceremony and barges in to share what she found. Magnus finally decides to listen and believes her evidence. Sasha takes a vial of Magnus’ blood and drinks it before anyone can stop her. Rayne comes along and slays her. Sunny hasn’t forgiven Magnus yet, especially when he has to deal with coven business instead of going with her. Jayden is okay, but still in the hospital. As Sunny is saying goodbye, they start kissing. Magnus walks in and Jayden sends Sunny after him when he leaves. he forgives her and realizes his mistakes. he has decided that he doesn’t want a blood mate and instead will promote Jareth. They decide to give their relationship another go. Sunny spends her last night in Vegas playing Mina to Jayden’s Dracula. She is shocked to see both of her parents in the crowd of the sold out show. Back at the apartment, the twins’ mom explains that they are all fairies that have been told to return to Tir Na Nog. If they refuse, they will be killed.

Angel: After the Fallby Joss Whedon (and others)NOTE: this series is a continuation that starts off where the TV show ended VOLUME ONE Angel and his friend dragon take cars to people and send them to Connor for safety. Gwen and Nina are with the vampire’s son to help. The demon lord of Westwood and his son come to Angel because he keeps killing their men. Wesley (now a ghost) tells the demon that Wolfram & Hart won’t let him kill Angel. The demon lord leaves, threatening Angel’s life if he attacks his men again. When the son comes back to kill humans as revenge, Angel throws a stake in his eye. Gunn found a group of survivors and thought them how to fight. Connor has become a target because he is Angel’s son. However, someone killed the lord that was after him and the demons start fighting over the title. Gwen shows them the writing in blood. Gunn is mad because he was turned into a vampire. He seems to be able to keep himself from killing humans and is now planning revenge on Angel. Angel goes to Spike, who is living like a king, in order to see Illyria. Illyria starts fighting Angel and there are many time flashes in the process. Spike goes to stop her from killing Angel, but she doesn’t listen. The dragon comes to the rescue. Connor shows up and explains that Spike has been helping him save and harbor humans. Angel meets with the demon lords and challenges them all. He has two days to heal and figure out a plan, which isn’t much time since he’s no longer a vampire. Wesley helps heal Angel. Lorne sends a couple of representatives to get them and bring them to his safe haven. Lorne says that he will not except Angel’s challenge over his territory and offers Gurusulug for backup. Lorne doesn’t trust Wesley because Wolfram & Hart brought him back for some dark purpose. Gunn blows up the law firm and Wesley disappears. Angel goes to battle the lords. After he starts fighting, his friends come to help, inspired by Lorne. Spike asks Angel for his help with Illyria. Wesley’s ghost returns after being tortured by the senior partners. When Illyria sees him, she becomes Fred. VOLUME TWO: First Night Beta was a fish at a park and not violent. Spike, glad to have survived, finds Fred in the street. He leaves her to save two other girls. Fred becomes Illyria, and Spike puts aside any thoughts of retirement.Connor starts to get out of Los Angeles like Angel told him to, but turns back to help Angel. A horde of demons catch him and recognize him as Angel’s son. After killing Lindsey, Lorne was in a bad place and flees the fight. He ends up in Silverlake and helps clear out all of the evil. The people elect him as their leader. Beta is a powerful telepath being guarded by one of Gunn’s vampires. Wesley knows he’s not really in heaven with Fred as the Senior Partners want him to think. They tell him if he cooperates, he can be with Fred after they are done with him. They send him back to Los Angeles in ghost form, planning for him to be their key to winning. Connor is rescued by Kate, who leaves him in a weapons store with the advice Angel once gave her a while back. Gwen had someone take her powers away. When hell was release on Los Angeles, they came back. When Gunn falls in the first big battle, Angel promises he will be okay. However, when Angel goes to free the dragon, Gunn is kidnapped and turned by a gang of vampires. When he wakes up, he kills his sire and takes the leadership role. VOLUME THREE Everyone is reunited for the big battle. gun watches from above and worries that he won’t be the one to kill Angel. A scepter (meant for killing immortals) is used to take out the lords. Angel’s team appears to win for now. they go to the Hyperion. Wesley takes Illyria to his body and explains that he couldn’t use it to break his contract with Wolfram & Hart for many reasons. Illyria wants Wesley to stay with her. Connor takes Angel to a weak vamp nest because he thinks his father is suicidal to pick a fight with the vampire that has been causing issues. Illyria points out that Angel is human. Gunn uses Beta to kill two slayers. he takes the fish to the roof and the dragon and heroes show up (Angel, Fred, Nina). Angel sends the dragon away with Fred and Nina. Before leaving, the dragon burns up the vampires and takes the girls to get the others. Gunn helps Angel with the vampires on the roof and leads him inside. He shows Angel the corpse of the demon that had the visions from the powers that be. Gunn went to release him when he killed the previous head vampire, but the demon was dying and gave the visions to Gunn, who believes that he is in control of his own demon and is doing good. He uses a stone to take away all of Angel’s healing spells and glamours. Gunn knows that Angel is human. Connor, Gwen, and Spike arrive with the dragon, but something is wrong with Gwen. Gwen has been working for Gunn to draw the others to him so that he would make her normal. She didn’t count on falling for Connor. Angel sees Cordelia and fills her in. She says that she is there to make his passing easier. Angel wonders if it is a trick. Fred is looking for an answer to Gunn’s reappearance. Wesley disappears and she turns back into Illyria, who is Angry that her friends are gone. She threatens Nina before leaving to find them. Wesley shows up and explains to Gunn that his visions have been coming from Wolfram & Hart all along. This whole thing was planned for Angel because of the shanshu prophecy. Wesley shows Angel only what would happen (Angelus) and Angel decides to go with Cordy. VOLUME FOUR Spike, who Gwen had previously zapped off the roof, kills a vampire and rescues the slayers Gunn has kept locked up. Wesley explains that Wolfram & Hart are sending their army because Angel wasn’t supposed to die. On the roof, Gwen sends Connor inside so that she can use her electricity to take out Wolfram & Hart’s army of dragons. Inside, Connor throws Gunn out of a window and then convinces Angel that he needs to stay and fight. Spike was staked on his way up, but arrives upstairs intact with the slayers. Gunn finds Illyria and puts on an act to get her to become Fred. He shoots her with a crossbow. Gunn takes Fred to a room that should return her to her original state. Angel is restored back five minutes, but Wolfram & Hart’s army comes to take him to the same place Gunn took Fred. Illyria reverts to her true form and starts destroying everything. Gun tries to have George tell Illyria to time slip back to the night before the alley. George explains that Illyria plans to end existence by collapsing time. Gunn wants Illyria to end the world and tries to take on Angel, who ignores him. Gunn stabs Connor, so Angel, filled by fury, fights Gunn and wins, but doesn’t kill him. Angel comes up with the idea of George flooding Illyria’s mind with Wesley and Spike’s real memories of Fred. Angel says goodbye to Connor. The army is determined to keep Angel alive, but just in case they can’t, they can reset time to when it all started. Angel and Wesley know what has to be done. Angel goes to fight Gunn and dies. They are back in the alley and everyone seems to have their memory from before the time reset. Angel gets Gunn and takes him to Wolfram & Hart, which isn’t there. So he take him to the hospital. Everyone seems to know Angel. He finds Connor. Angel tries to find out what happened to Wolfram & Hart, but with no luck. Everyone in Los Angeles seems to remember the hell period and now Angel is famous. Spike fights the people that had originally kidnapped George. He finds out that all of the demon lords that Angel had killed are now out for him. They go to Silverlake where Lorne and Illyria have been watching over Gunn. Angel leaves his original card so that Gunn can seek Angel for help when he comes out of his coma.

Beautiful Redemption by Kami Garcia & Margrette Stohl Lena tries to deal with Ethan’s death, but is having a difficult time with it. her world was shattered to save a world that she sometimes thinks wasn’t worth saving She is in denial of the whole situation. Ethan wakes up to a blue sky. He later realizes that he is in his bedroom, not heaven. He hears a noise downstairs and calls out for Amma, but it is his mom that answers. He eats fried green tomatoes with his mother as he realizes that he is dead. In the real world, his friends have been keeping his father from knowing that. He says that he has to let Lena know that he is alright. His mother explains that it is very difficult to communicate with people from the other world, but once he leaves the house, he can wish himself anywhere and see Lena. Ethan leaves the house to find out it isn’t on the street it was on in Gatlin. The house is in the cemetery. The doors of all of the houses (placed where people’s graves are) are their tombstones. After going back inside for a while to calm down, Ethan heads out to find Lena. he keeps walking in circles until he realizes that he has to imagine his way there. When he can’t do it, he goes to Aunt Prue for help. She tells him that he is buried in Greenbriar and his friends are telling everyone that he is in Savannah helping his Aunt with some emergency. Ethan tires to convince Aunt Prue to teach him how to go to Gatlin. She refuses and says he needs to learn on his own. She is not as strong as him mom. She falls asleep and Ethan takes a map of the Luna Libri out of her hands. He goes home and asks his mom about it. She takes him to Maven’s grave and tells him to use the passage into the tunnels. Ethan gets frustrated looking through scroll for a way back. He asks his mom why she won’t just tell him how she does it. She explains that she already has and it must work differently for different souls. She finds a meditation which disappears after she reads it. She suggests Ethan try it in Latin, but when it doesn’t work, she realizes that he is dwelling on his situation. She kelts the words to him and he repeats them in his mind. Ethan makes his way to a snowy Ravenwood hallway. He tries kelting with Lena, but has no success. He goes to her room and finds everything packed up. Ethan goes out to his grave. he finds Lena’s button from her charm necklace and picks it up and drops it. Lena arrives with Link. Lena is still in denial that Ethan is dead. She notices the button moved and knows Ethan did it. She leaves him a not that says “Try.” Ethan goes to see Amma, but she has set up so much protection, he can’t get in the house. He wishes as hard as he can to be inside and finds himself by the Temporis Porta in the tunnel beneath the house. He makes his way in. Lucille hisses at him and Amma realizes a spirit is there. He lets her know that it is him by taking a chunk out of the cake she baked for his grave. She tells him not to go to far from home yet because she has somethings to tell him eventually. Lucille starts leaving the room, but waits for Ethan to follow. He does. Ethan goes into Amma’s room and sees the bottles from the tree outside, empty and corked. He opens one and has a vision of Amma with her grandmother, Sulla, who teaches the young girl about the Cards of Providence compared to tarot cards. Ethan notices Sulla wearing a necklace with a black stone that he has never seen her wear when she appears. Ethan wonders if all of the bottles hold Amma’s memories. Ethan goes back into the kitchen when he hears his dad coming down the stairs. He asks if Ethan has called and Amma tells him Aunt Caroline has him busy because of her broken hip (he has a cast on him to help him believe the story). Ethan goes down to the office of the local newspaper, The Stars and Stripes, to leave a message for Amma and Lena in the crossword puzzle. Lila comes along to check on him and eventually agrees to help him arrange the tiles on the desk for the Sunday edition. Ethan is so overwhelmed by all he lost that he starts slipping back to the other world. His mom grabs him to anchor him. Ethan and Lila go back to the other world to find Aunt Prue waiting for him. She says that he wasn’t supposed to die and she needs to take him to someone who can tell him about it. His mother tries to tell her no, that Ethan is where he belongs and she has already decided. Prue argues that Ethan is old enough to make his own decisions. He follows his aunt through a shed into a completely different place. he goes int a house where he meets Obidias, a man with snakes for fingers on one hand, who Link had once met and told Ethan about. Ethan realizes he is a dark caster when the man takes of his sunglasses. Obidias tells Ethan that his death wasn’t in the Caster Chronicles originally, so if he destroys the page that describes it, he can go back. Ethan asks how Obidias knows that the page wasn’t originally there. The dark caster admits that he wrote the page himself. Ethan is furious. Obidias explains that he was punished with the snake hand for trying to steal his own page from the Caster Chronicles. When someone is caught, they are made into the keeper’s scribe and have to write out deaths for waywards. He continues to tell Ethan how to get the book. Go to the seam, find the “river eyes” (two smooth black stones) and offer the gatekeeper something he can’t refuse. Aunt Prue gives Ethan a map she has been making. Ethan goes to Ravenwood and finds Lena talking with Macon about her experience at Ethan’s grave a week before. Macon is skeptical. Lena goes to bed and Ethan follows. The next morning over breakfast, Ethan pulls the Stars and Stripes out of Macon’s stack of newspapers. She mentions Amma doing the crossword puzzle and Macon says he could finish it in three minutes. When they see “poltergeist,” is one of the words, Lena knows that Ethan is there and sending her a message. Ethan remembers seeing one of the river eyes around Sulla’s neck in his vision of Amma. He goes to the gravesite of the family that used to make Wild Turkey and finds his way to a door Aunt Prue marked on the map. He goes through and makes his way to the cemetery at Wader’s Creek where he finds some of the greats playing cards. They already know why he is there. He asks Sulla for the river eye stone and she gladly gives it. Twyla tells Ethan that Lena has the other one on her charm necklace. Uncle Abner lends him his crow, Exu because he knows the way to the seam and can travel between worlds. Uncle Abner tells him to gift him with some tobacco and Wild Turkey to keep him happy and Amma owes them pie and fried chicken when Ethan returns. Sulla tells Ethan to tell the river master that she sent him. Ethan goes to the Stars and Stripes and leaves another message for Lena to let her know that he needs her to leave the stone at his mom’s grave. By the time he gets back to the other world, it is waiting for him. Ethan has a hard time leaving his mom behind, but she makes it a little easier by disappearing into the kitchen. Ethan leaves without saying goodbye. Following the map and Exu, Ethan makes it to the river. He follows the sound of the Rolling Stones until he finds the river master, Charlie, who wants convincing to have to do his job. Ethan plays blackjack and talks about Lena. Charlie tells him about his lost love, Penelope (Penny) and how he can’t go after her because he was sentenced to this job. Ethan wins a hand and Charlie takes him over the river of bodies. On the other side, Charlie points him in the direction of the gate keeper and tells Ethan to tell him he owes Charlie money. Ethan continues to follow the map and crow. He sees mountains in the distance and notices that he is heading straight for one of them. He finds a small dark hole behind some dead brush. He starts crawling through the razor sharp tunnel, trying to focus on his goal: getting back to Lena. When Ethan emerges from the tunnel, he meets the gate keeper. He doesn’t have any interest in what Ethan has to offer gift wise. The gate keeper takes Ethan to see his collection Ethan asks about the Book of Stars (light half of the pair), which the gate keeper has never used because he can’t afford the debt. He already owes the Far Keep. Ethan asks the gate keeper, Xavier, about his past. He was once a keeper who questioned the morality of the Far Keep. The further he goes from the gate, the more of a monster he comes. He is afraid to tell Ethan the story, so he brings out a “third eye” (shows the past/present/future) to show him. Xavier confronted Angelus about the mortals in the dungeon being tortured with dark casts. When the keepers have vowed only to keep the records. Angelus used a cast to disfigure Xavier. Ethan tries to think of what he can do. Xavier wants the Book of Moons so that no one can use it. Ethan says he can get it with Xavier’s help and a few of his treasures. Ethan and Xavier come up with a plan to send Ethan to the Stars and Stripes office armed with a cast to fix the crossword puzzle again. He says Book of Moons. The gang sits around the Wate kitchen table trying to figure out why Ethan needs the Book of Moons in the other world. Amma suggests that it is for a bargain. Link doesn’t believe that Ethan is coming back and suggests that it could be Sarafine sending the messages. Lena is determined it is Ethan and knows she has to get the book to him. When Ethan’s dad, Mitchell, comes home, she recasts the spell to keep him from knowing Ethan is dead. Sitting around in Macon’s study, sans Amma, the group brainstorms on how to get the book from Abraham. John offers himself in a trade, but everyone agrees that is a worst case scenario. Macon suggests they talk to the Sisters to see if they know anything about Abraham. After a long discussion about what happened to Ethan (they already know he died), the Sisters tell them that Abraham used to be at a club in New Orleans called The Dark Side O’ The Moon. Lena tells Link that she is taking John to New Orleans with her because she doesn’t want to risk Link. Lena tries to convince Macon to let her go to New Orleans, but he refuses. She leaves early in the morning, taking John with her through the tunnels. They find the bar and hear people inside. They go in and look around. Lena suggests that the place was a speakeasy during prohibition and probably has a back room. She looks through a window and sees Ridley in a back room inside a gold cage. Lena has to help her cousin and John agrees to keep watch. She goes to Ridley and asks her about the book. Ridley says that Abraham wouldn’t keep it on him. She apologizes for not going to Lena when Ethan died. Macon and John show up in the room. They search for the book and Macon demands that John take them all home. Lena, John, and Link go to meet Ridley at the cemetery. She told Abraham that she is his spy, and he believed her because she favors the winning team. When the guys are skeptical, Lena tires to assure them that her cousin will not betray them. John, Link, and Lena go back to the cemetery later to exchange John for the Book of Moons. Obviously when they arrive, Abraham is there and has changed his mind. He wants to keep the book and take Link, declaring John useless. Ridley tries to dissuade his interest in Link, but it is no use. Abraham starts to control John, having him strangle himself. Macon shows up and takes out Hunting with his light. He then focuses it on Abraham, giving Link the opportunity to stab Abraham in the chest with his pruning sheers. They put the book on Ethan’s mom’s grave, but are reluctant to leave it alone. They leave Boo and Bade to watch over it and start heading home. Lena sees a crow circling in the sky and follows it back to Lila’s grave. She sends Boo and Bade away and the crow lands. It is burned by the book, so they decide to ask Marian how to get it to Ethan in the otherworld. They take the book to Marian and recount the tale of what happened in the graveyard. Liv wonders if the book is to deeply rooted in their world to cross over. Marian suggests they ask Amma. Amma refuses to let the group in because they have Ridley with them, but she agrees to meet them at Greenbriar. She shows up and Lena tells her that they have the book, but weren’t able to get it to Ethan. Amma explains that they will need a lot of power from both worlds. She sends Lena and Ridley to gather the rest of their family (who just returned from Barbados so that they wouldn’t miss the action) while Amma prepares to call the greats. Lena explains the situation to her grandma, who agrees because Amma is involved. Reece thinks it is a bad idea, but everyone agrees that they all owe Ethan for what he did. The casters join hands in a circle around Lena and Amma. Lena holds the book so that it can’t escape and Amma helps while calling on the greats. They eventually come when Amma begs for Ethan’s sake. Genevieve appears in the circle and says that Lena can trust her. She get the book and takes it to Sulla. Ethan spends his time waiting and helping Xavier catalog his items. When he goes to give Xavier the other river eye, he has a vision of Sulla reading Angelus’ cards. She tells him the keepers won’t allow him the power he seeks and that he has a choice to make. He leaves and Amma comes out of her hiding place, asking about changing the cards. Xavier tells Ethan to keep the stone. Later he asks Ethan to describe Lena, but his memory is fading. It comes back in a rush when Exu alerts him. Ethan picks up the Book of Moons. Ethan is terrified, but makes the trade with Xavier and walks inside the gates. There is a guard that helps Ethan find out how to get to the Far Keep. Ethan has to go through the Labyrinth and die an honorable death. Ethan makes his way through to find a pit in the middle surrounded by human bones. Ethan comes to a thrown and confronts the queen of the dead and the damned: Sarafine. Angelus has blinded Sarafine and chained her to a thrown. Ethan has to battle her and the looser is damned to eternal darkness. Ethan doesn’t want to fight Sarafine and tells her his plan to get back to Lena as she uses her power to choke him. Ethan says he will kill Angelus if it will get him back to Lena. Sarafine, hating Angelus more than Ethan, sets herself on fire to give Ethan a chance. The fire spreads and Ethan passes out. He wakes up and is at the Temporis Porta. Ethan is in the Far Keep. Angelus and the other council keepers show up. They have granted him access to the Far Keep. Ethan questions if he can have his life back since the page was added. Angelus says they will not send him back. Xavier appears and suggests a challenge. If Ethan can get to his page, he can do whatever he wants with it. If Angelus prevents him, he can do whatever he wants with Ethan. The keepers leave the room to give Ethan a fair chance. Xavier leaves and hopes he will see Ethan again someday. Ethan ventures out and finds the library. It only contains one book which sits on a pedestal surrounded by a moat of the dead, including the other (Genevieve’s) Ethan Wate. Angelus is on the other side of the room, reading Ethan’s mind, and occasionally throwing rocks at him with his powers. Ethan tells Angelus that he knows he started out as a mortal, so he can’t cross the river of the dead, same as Ethan. Angelus tries and is pulled down by them. Ethan finds the bridge and puts it in place. The plank is unstable and he falls in as angelus saves himself with a cast. The keeper has the dead hold Ethan, until he uses his other river eye to pay for passage. He gets to the book and burns Angelus’ page, which kills him. He tears out his own and it becomes blank. He disappears. Ethan is on top of the water tower with Amma. She steps off to join her family, promising to always be with him. Just like her deal the the bokor, Amma traded her life for Ethan’s to keep the order in tact. He sits on top of the water tower, afraid to leave and make Amma’s departure real. Lena comes up the next day and they cry together. Amma' s obituary is in the Stars and Stripes. The remaining Sisters complain about it. Ethan and his dad share a moment together mourning the woman who raised them both. Ethan leaves with Lena and Link. Together in Link’s beater, it feels just like old times.

They stop by the library and tell Marian and Macon when they touch, there is no longer a reaction. Marian and Macon agree that they will have to look into whether the change effects all casters and mortals. They head to the Dairy King to meet up with Ridley, Liv and John. Afterwards, they do the crossword and receive Amma’s message to be good.

Ethan decides that there isn’t a meaning of life so much as a meaning to living. Late at night, half asleep, Ethan pours glasses of chocolate milk for Amma, Aunt Prue, Twyla, and his mom. He loves them all and knows they will always be with him.

Beautiful Chaos by Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl Ethan drams about fighting about fighting himself on top of the water tower. he is waken up by falling out of bed for the fifth morning in a row. Link is already there when Ethan goes down for breakfast. Link is getting used to being part incubus and jokes some. The food tastes bad to Ethan. Amma warns him that trouble is on the way. Gatlin is having a heat wave and an infestation of lubbers (black grasshoppers that swarm like locus). Ethan and Link pull into the school parking lot to see that Lena is driving the hearse and dressing like herself. Ridley uses the car to change out of the “appropriate” dress her grandma had picked out. Savannah Snow flirts with Link and he enjoys her and Ridley arguing over him. Emily is disgusted by the scene, proving Link’s new chick magnet power doesn’t affect everyone. Savannah notices Lena’s gold eye and makes a comment. Lena blows her off. Ridley has trouble adjusting to high school life. The guys drool over her, but she only shows interest in Link. Savannah also continues pursuing him. Ethan hears a strange voice in his head. When he looks down at his notebook, it says “I’m waiting” in his own handwriting. Ridley uses a spell to change her and Link’s schedule to get away from Savannah. Lena and Ethan try to tell her how dangerous it is to cast as a mortal. Ridley points out that Ethan and Liv performed a cast to let Macon out of the archlight. Ethan misses Liv. Ethan and Lena leave after school and go back to Ravenwood. They contemplate how the world has changed and how to fix it. Lena knows that she will have to pay a price for her choice; she just doesn’t know when. Later at dinner, Ethan’s dad says that an idea for a book called “Eighteen Moons,” came to him. Ethan and Amma freak out. While lying in bed, he kelts the news to Lena. they think it might be Abraham or Sarafine. Ethan hears the song “Eighteen Moons.” Kitchen is having trouble cooking and the rest of the caster world is also feeling the affects of the broken order. Macon reads mortal newspapers from around the world, noting the disasters. Even Jackson High is having some abnormalities. After school, Ridley drags Ethan and Lena to watch Link’s scrimmage. The cheerleaders are there and Savannah decides to cheer Link’s name. Ridley tells her to leave Link alone. Savannah refuses. Ridley has all the cheerleaders stack in a pyramid and fall on her. Ethan and Lena decide to go into the tunnels to talk to Macon. Lena doesn’t like Ethan going down their because of Liv. Lena decides to use the secret door in Ridley’s room to get to the tunnels. her bedroom door is stuck and Ethan thinks he hears an incubus rip out before it opens. Lena is curious about Doritos in Ridley’s room because she knows her cousin likes sweet and not salty things. They make it into the tunnels and overhear Macon and Liv talking about John Breed being bred for a reason. Macon thinks he is the “Adam” and Lena might be the “Eve” to a new species Abraham is working on. Lena runs to her room and Ethan follows, not letting them know that they learned their secret. Lena goes with Ethan and Aunt Del to the house she spent her first year in, the one Sarafine burned to the ground. Aunt Del is only able to show them a slight memory of Sarafine holding Lena. They find a lockbox and they are taken into a vision. Izabel turns dark and goes to her mother for help. Her mother turns her away and tells her that her true name is Sarafine. Lena realizes that her mother was just like her. Ethan has another dram featuring himself, his double, and a river of blood. He wakes up and calls Link. His best friend comes over and they talk. Link hears Amma downstairs leaving the house. They follow her through the outer door at the fairgrounds into the tunnels. She exits through another door arriving in New Orleans. They continue to follow her into a cemetery and eventually a tomb of a Voodoo queen, where they find a trap door. Link and Ethan finally catch up and hear Amma’s conversation with a dark Voodoo man (a bokor). She shows him her spread of cards and which death she wants to change. He asks if she knows where something is hidden and she replies that it is, it is free. He says she knows the price to save the one that is already lost and she agrees to it. Ethan goes to talk to Marian about Amma’s trip. Marian agrees to do some research, but knows she won’t be able to answer the big question: what was in the cards that Amma wanted to change? Ethan reads a paper saying that Marian is suspended because the order is broken. They leave the archive to see books everywhere. They open, read, and clean, getting messages of madness and death. Ethan wakes up from a dream to find Abraham in his room wanting to know where John is. Ethan says that he doesn’t know, but Abraham doesn’t believe him. Link travels for the first time to come help Ethan, but ends up landing on top of him. Amma comes in and threatens Abraham, who makes his own threat before unleashing a wind in the bedroom. Abraham calls on his vexes and they circle the room. Amma starts to call the greats, but is interrupted by Abraham’s departure. The vexes go out the window and spread over the town. No one can sleep, so the three of them sit around the table until the phone rings. Amma answers and then tells the boys to drive her. Main Street is a wreck and the library is burning, but worst of all, part of Ethan’s great Aunt’s house collapsed. His Aunt Prue is unresponsive. Ethan starts running, knowing he has to find John somehow. Ethan, his dad, and Amma deal with the remaining two “healthy” Sisters moving in wit them. Amma helps Ethan sneak Lena into his room so they can have some time together. Ethan notices Lena’s copy of Great Expectations is the one they found at the ruins of Sarafine’s old house. He tries to take it from her and they slip into a vision. Sarafine goes to John Eades to tell him she went dark. They decide to run away so they can still be together. Lena points out the marking throughout the book. Ethan and Lena go to visit Aunt Prue. Lean gives him some time alone and he is able to talk to her when he falls asleep. She says he was there the previous night asking if he could go over with her. He asks if she is coming back with him, but she doesn’t know. She does know that the wheel of fate isn’t done with him yet. Lena returns and he wakes up. The nurse comes along to shoo them out. Lena goes back for her purse and Ethan sneaks in to visit a boy who keeps writing something in the same spot of a page. He moves the paper and the boy, named John, writes that the world will end on the eighteenth moon. Ethan is so freaked out, he has trouble driving. Lena controls the car while they discuss the signs Ethan has received. They think John Breed’s eighteenth moon is the one they need to worry about. Out in front of the church, the town Christians are gathered to inform that the end is near and demons are coming. Ethan decides to talk to Amma about John and the eighteenth moon, but when he gets to her door, he smells the dark voodoo. She won’t tell him what she is doing so he decides not to ask for help. He also realizes that he has been forgetting things a lot lately. He calls Marian and asks her to meet him at Ravenwood. He kelts Lena next and then goes to pick up Link. They examine the scorch marks leading up to the gate. They notice the house shaking and try to get inside, but the door won’t open for Ethan. Lena has to let them in. Everyone gathers around a table. Liv shows up and starts explaining her measurements of the tremors. Ethan mixes up kelting with Lena and actually saying Liv’s name. he goes on to suggest that the tremors are coming from inside the house. Macon walks through Ethan’s mind and finds an uninvited guest is with him and something is missing. Ethan gets angry and storms out after informing them of John’s eighteenth moon. Ethan dreams about the voice again. While in his room thinking about Lena, he sees another vision of her mother. She has become obsessed with fire. There is a voice in her head. She is trying to keep these secrets from John. Ethan comes back and his mom is there as a sheer. She comforts him and tells him he needs to let go because it was her time to go. She tries to reassure him before she leaves. While at the Dairy King, Ethan eats the infamously disgusting tatter tots and Ridley explains why they were invited to Savannah’s party: she joined the cheerleading squad. Lena is furious. They go to watch Ridley cheer (and upset Savannah). Ethan tells Lena that Ridley has to deal with her own problems. He tells her that his mom came to him and mentioned the wheel of fate being a person and evil having many faces. Lena says they are leaving to solve Ethan’s problem. Lena takes Ethan to the library where they find his dad, Mitchell, talking with their teacher, Lilian English. Ethan and Lena get away from them and Marian sends the adults away. She tells them that the council of the Far Keep is coming to ask questions. Ethan demands to stay and sends Lena to get Macon so they can be there for her. The council arrives and start their judging. Marian admits that she didn’t stop Liv and sent her away to protect her from them. Liv shows up anyway, taking all responsibility for her actions. The council leaves. Macon asks Lena for her help with caster records and Ethan to take Liv home. On the way, Ethan takes Liv to Wate’s Landing for some of Amma’s cooking. While getting a jar of preserves from the basement, Ethan and Liv find a secret door that was probably used to hide runaway slaves. It leads to a tunnel. At the end of the tunnel, they find a caster door, Temporis Porta. Ethan tries to open it, but it won’t budge. He tells it to show him what he is supposed to see and it opens. He sees Marian’s trial at the Far Keep. She is found guilty of treason. No one seems to be able to see or hear him until he runs into Mrs. English. She explains that someone must be blamed for the order being broken and only Ethan can stop the wheel of fate from crushing them all. The door appears in the middle of the scene. Ethan touches it and is brought back to the tunnel. He explains to Liv what happened and they think it is a possible future, if not the future. They agree to keep Marian away from the council. Ethan goes to check on Marian, but she doesn’t answer the door. Liv shows up for the same reason and they have a chance to catch up. She admits that she misses him and he returns the sentiment. He gives her an invite to Savannah’s party so they can all hang out, but she doesn’t commit. At the movie theater, Ethan tells Lena about inviting Liv to the party. She isn’t happy about it, but is quickly distracted by Ethan forgetting their usual order of popcorn and Milk-duds. Link and Ridley (who each showed up with separate dates) also requires their attention. Ethan tells Link to ask Ridley to Savannah’s party as his date. Link debates. Later, he ends up beating up Ridley’s date. Ethan goes home and finds a note from Liv saying she is going to the party. Ethan, Lena, and Link go to the party. Ridley shows up late and Liv even later. Ethan leaves Lena and Liv to talk and overhears that Savannah set up the party so college basketball scouts could meet Link. Ethan goes to tell him, but he doesn’t care. he goes to Ridley and says that it has always been her. She turns him down and he goes back to Savannah, who kisses him. Ridley casts a furor and everyone starts fighting, including Lena and Liv expressing their true feelings. Ethan takes them to Ravenwood, which wipes the spell off of them. They open Ridley’s door to yell at her and See John Breed. Ridley dug up the archlight and released him from it only to keep him trapped in Ravenwood. She has a belt with a scorpion that allows her to use his powers to cast. they bring in Reece, who confirms that he is telling the truth. They decide to take John to Marian in the tunnels. All together, they gather at a table. John says that they have been underestimating Ridley when she wants something he goes on to tell them that he absorbs caster’s powers when he touches them. The caster keeps their power, but so does he. however, he’s not sure how to use most of them. John quotes some racist propaganda he was made to memorize by Abraham and Silas. Macon asks John how he know his father and John tells them that Silas raised him. Ethan and Lena spend a lot of time reading while Macon and Liv question John. Ridley has disappeared. Eventually, Ethan goes to see Aunt Prue. He dreams of her again and she gives him a necklace to give to Lena, saying it will help her watch over the caster girl. Ethan goes to Lena’s and she holds out her hand for the necklace, saying Aunt Prue also came to her to say goodbye. The shadowing song tells Ethan the one who is two will fix the order. Amma locks herself in her room when she sees Ethan writing left handed (he’s normally a righty), but won’t tell him what is going on. At school, he finds his dad having lunch with Mrs. English. She asks him to videotape the classes reenactment of the Crucible. He agrees. During the whole ordeal, Ethan wonders if there is a deeper meaning to him playing John. He sees his reflection in the camera lens isn’t quite following his movements and leaves the room as quickly as he can completely freaked out. Amma sends Ethan to Mrs. English’s house with a plate of cookies to apologize. She invites him in and suddenly, Abraham and Sarafine arrive with the Book of Moons. They chant a cast and Mrs. English becomes Lilum, the wheel of fate (the demon queen). Abraham commands her to create a new order ruled by darkness. Lilum doesn’t like being commanded and sends him and Sarafine away. She tells Ethan that for a new order, there must be a sacrifice by the one who is two. Lena will bind it, and Ethan is tasked with finding the person. Ethan and Lena sit in Mrs. English’s empty classroom talking about what happened. They decide to leave the school and go down to the lake to have some time alone without thinking. They join Liv in Macon’s study in the tunnels to question John. Eventually, he starts talking. They find out his birthday (as far as he knows) is December 22 (the winter solstice). Silas raised him as an incubus to hate casters. Abraham thinks casters are the inferior race and all (light and dark) need to be wiped out. Back at home, Ethan decides to read. He feels Lena turning a page and they are suck into another vision. Sarafine is nineteen years old and has Lena. She can only think about fire and her daughter. Abraham appears and shows Sarafine how to control her powers. He also shows her the prophecy stating that she would go dark, but Lena would have a choice. Amma prepares Thanksgiving dinner. Ethan and Lena feel bad when Liv doesn’t show up, so they decide to take her some of Amma’s pecan pie. Ethan goes down into the tunnels while Lena stays behind to check out Ridley’s room. Ethan eavesdrops on John and Liv flirting. After a while, he announces himself and asks Liv for her help. He attempts to apologize, but also warns her about John. He asks her about the wheel of fate. Liv thinks it has to do with the symbol on the Temporis Porta and Ethan. After waking up from another nightmare, Ethan decides to go to the bokor for answers. Link happens to be outside of his house and they leave for New Orleans with Lucille following. The bokor shows Ethan a sheer of himself and explains that his soul was divided when Lena and Amma brought him back. They ask how to fix it, but the bokor says that he and Amma are working on it. He asks about the price Amma has to pay, but the bokor won’t say. Ethan finally confronts Amma when he gets home. Her reaction convinces him that she is going crazy. She prays to the greats for forgiveness when Ethan tell her he went to see the bokor. She draws a sparrow with a broken wing from the deck. The greats don’t answer. Ethan buys tickets for the winter formal because it maybe their last chance. Lena isn’t happy about it because of what happened last year, but agrees to go. Ethan also convinces Link, who isn’t happy about Savannah being his date. Link is still torn up over Ridley, so Lena decides to take his mind off of it. Link and Savannah pick up Ethan for the dance and head to Ravenwood. Lena surprises Ethan by inviting John and Liv, obviously a couple now, to be their dates until they get inside. John rips Link and Savannah to the dance and Lena explains that the band has to arrive early before they head to the hearse. They arrive at the school and Link is having a great time performing. Ridley shows up and shows Link that she became a siren again so that they can be together. He refuses to join the bad guys and she leaves. The whole group gets ready to leave, but meet up with Hunting and his blood pack. They were able to track John because he left the tunnels. Liv tells John to rip, but he refuses. Link goes to back him up. Macon arrives and uses his new light caster power to emulate light, killing Hunting’s pack, but doesn’t have the energy to finish off his brother. Back at Ravenwood, Ethan and Lena sit on the front porch. Lean is worried that Ridley will end up like Sarafine. Ethan touches Lena’s bracelet that was her mothers and they slip into a vision. Sarafine spends a lot of time in a study Abraham made her in the tunnels. She is trying to figure out how to control her powers and the voices in her head. Hunting mocks her for trying to be light. She overhears her half brother talking with Abraham about John Breed and taking out the casters. Back home, she tells her husband about the prophecy and how she is trying to help Lena. John, her husband, threatens to leave with Lena if Sarafine doesn’t stop seeing Abraham. She surrounds him with fire. Later that night, Lena wakes up Ethan to tell him that Marian is gone and Macon went to help her. Lena, Ethan, John, and Liv head to the Temporis Porta. Ethan is frustrated at first. Liv and him figure out the wheels on the door are for the three keepers that came to visit Marian with the Caster Chronicles, which represent past, present, and the future that will/will not be. When Ethan stops seeing a door and starts seeing a path, he is granted access. He tells Liv about his experience with Lilum and she says a Lilum on Earth means the apocalypse. They form a chain and go through. They are at Marian’s sentencing. Just as they declare that she is guilty of treason and must be sent back to the dark fire, Macon shows up. John announces himself. He has Lena and Macon show off and points out that he can do the same. Angelus, the keeper in charge, is furious. There is a flash of light and they are all back at the Temporis Porta, including Marian. Back in Macon’s study, the entire group starts talking about what is going on. Angelus hates mortals and they wonder if he is in league with Abraham. Marian only has a week until her sentence is supposed to be carried out. Lena and Ethan go to their spot in the Greenbriar garden. Abraham and Sarafine show up to kill Lena because they think she is the one that is two. Lena overpowers her mothers flame. Ethan escapes Abraham with the help from the other half of his soul. Sarafine pleads with Lena for her life, but gives away her lack of caring by saying the exact same thing she said when she killed her husband, John. They face off against Abraham, but all Lena can think about is how she killed her mother. The incubus tells them they are out of time. Abraham uses the Book of Moons to open up the earth and release demons. Ethan and Lena start to run, but there is an earthquake ripping up the ground like a loose seem. Link is heading for them in the beater with Boo running beside it. He uses his traveling power to get to them and rips them all out of there. They end up by some trees and head for the cemetery. The ground starts shaking again and the graves all start to empty. they see a demon animate a corpse and then leave the body behind. Link compares their situation to how the Bible describes the end. Ethan’s shadowing song predicted eighteen deaths. There are sixteen at the morgue. Ethan is pretty sure he knows who number seventeen is. When he gets to Aunt Prue, Amma, Twyla, Arelia, and Leah are already there. Ethan takes the hand of his great-aunt so he can say goodbye. He is suddenly at the vault door inside the caster club, Exile. Aunt Prue opens the door when Ethan cannot. She asks him to walk a little ways with her like he promised. Ethan looks through the door and sees himself. He gets ready to go through, but Amma and the rest of the girls stop him. The family scrambles around to try to meet all of Prue’s last requests in the letter she wrote. At the funeral, she shows herself to Ethan. She has a few complaints, but is overall happy with the turnout. Amma reads a prophetic poem. Ethan dreams about fighting himself on the water tower again. Jon wakes him up and tells him to take him there because he believes he is the two who is one. Liv shows up. They say their goodbyes and John jumps off of the water tower. Lilum says that John is not the one. Ethan, Liv, and John are transported back to Ethan’s room. Ethan goes to Mrs. English’s house and starts asking her about the eighteenth moon. He is transported to his ancestor’s field at Wate’s Landing where he waters the field. He knows that he is the one who is two, the crucible. He bargains with Lilum and she promises to save his friends. He is ready. He returns to Mrs. English’s living room and calls 9-1-1 because she collapses again. He leaves before the ambulance arrives and goes to spend his last hours with Lena. Ethan hangs out with Link and gives him an Aquaman comic book to remember him. Link admits that the Twinkie that started their friendship never touched the floor. Ethan goes to see Marian (who is no longer sentenced by the Far Keep) and Liv. They figure it out quickly and say their goodbyes. Lena has a hard time dealing with Ethan’s possible death. He gives her his map. She gives him her charm necklace. He tries to get her to promise that she will bind the new order, but she doesn’t think she can. Ethan goes to the water tower in the middle of the night so that no one will try to talk him out of it. John shows up because Ethan was there when he tried to pay the debt to create the new order. Amma shows up with the bokor, who starts releasing unclaimed souls to stop Ethan. John is useless against them. macon shows up and sucks the souls into holes he creates in the universe and then closes them up. Macon threatens the bokor and he leaves. Amma calls on the greats to stop Ethan, but they abandon her to do what is right. Ethan starts climbing. At the top of the water tower, Ethan fights with the other half of his soul, who is trying to stop him. They fall off of the tower and Ethan thinks of Lena the whole way down.

Beautiful Darkness by Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl Macon is “buried” in Gatlin cemetery before dawn. Many incubuses attend, but have to leave when the sun starts coming up. A caster boy who was with them stays long enough to give Lena a small silver sparrow. While sleeping at Ethan’s, she keeps hold of it. Ethan goes to pick up Lena for her to return to school. He has been hearing the song “Seventeen Moons” for months, but Lena refuses to talk about it. In the high school parking lot, the people who hated Lena give her looks of sympathy. She starts crying and boo gets into the car for the first time. They skip school and go to Greenbriar. Lena unintentionally burns the grass. They worry because fire is the trademark of a cataclyst. Ethan has trouble getting Lean out of the house. She seemed to find two spots where she is comfortable: her bedroom ceiling and the top of the water tower. While they are on the water tower, Ethan gives her a sharpie that attaches to her necklace of memories. She starts counting down to her birthday again. Ethan’s aunt brings his dad home from his time with some doctors. Lena leaves when he really needs her. His father apologizes for going crazy after the accident. Ethan drags Link out to look for Lucille Ball (his aunt’s cat). That night, Ethan opens up Macon’s journal that Lena refuses. He slips into a vision of Abraham Ravenwood helping Ivy hid the book from Genevieve. He is already drawn to its power and wants to use it to save Ravenwood from the fire that has consumed the rest of the city. Ethan wonders why he is having more visions. he believes that the book was burned on Lena’s birthday. Ethan goes back to school while Lena drifts further away from him. One day he hears her reciting poetry in his head and he leaves in the middle of class to go to her. When he gets to her room in Ravenwood, it is a mess: books torn up, burned, and scattered everywhere. He finds her hiding in the closet because the books sounded like Macon. A few days later when Ethan is dropping off homework, the room is spotless and there are photographs on the wall. Ethan accidentally opens one of Lena’s notebooks that appears as an actual book. When he asks why it is empty, she explains that she hid the writing from mortal eyes. When she hands it back to Ethan, he is able to read a list Lena has made trying to remember the night Macon died. She takes the book away and says he can’t understand. he cries. Back at home, Lucille Ball comes up to him on the porch. Lucile Ball returns to Ethan after he takes her back to his aunts, so he keeps her. He dreams about the night of Lena’s birthday and wakes up with a scar from where he was stabbed. Link picks him up for school. Afterwards, Ethan tries to find out what is going on (dreams that Lena is not dreaming as well as “Seventeen Moons”) and she tells them the casters are leaving Gatlin. Everyone at school except Lena had their tires slashed and a familiar motorcycle drives off (it was one of the photos on Lena’s wall). Lena, Ethan, and Link go to the lake. Lena refuses to talk to Ethan about what happened the night of her birthday. While Link is swimming, she starts acting like her old self. They start kissing and her eyes seem to be more gold before she almost hurts him. She comes back to herself and runs off through the woods towards the highway. Ethan catches up in time to see her get on the back of a motorcycle (the same one that was in the picture and belongs to the tire-slasher). Link convinces Ethan to stop at the Dairy King on their way to return Lena’s car. A guy walks in followed by Ridley, who introduces Ethan to the green-eyed (sign of a light caster) John Breed, who was at Macon’s funeral and owns the mysterious motorcycle. Ethan says he is Lena’s boyfriend and John points out that Lena didn’t mention him. Ethan and Link take the car to Ravenwood’s gate but can’t get in. Ethan goes through his box of memories of Lena. Amma makes him wear a red string around his wrist. Ethan goes to work helping Marian at the library and meets the British research assistant, Olivia (Liv), who is just like Marian. Marian takes Ethan to the archive to start learning about the next story. He finds a book in his mom’s chair and it sends him into a vision. Abraham uses the Book of Moons to protect Ravenwood from the soldiers burning the town by casting the Demon’s Trade. His brother, Jonah is too late to stop him and accidentally droops his archlight (used for trapping incubuses). Ethan wakes up and tells Marian about his vision and that this time Abraham seemed to be able to see him. Marian tells him that Abraham is dead and not to pursue this storyline or tell anyone about it. The Gatlin Library delivers most of its books because people don’t want other people to know what they are reading. Marian sends Liv with Ethan on the deliveries so he can show her around town. They get along easily while discussing their differences. Lena drives by as they are leaving the Dairy King. That night Ethan tries to sleep. Lucille Ball and Boo seem to have a conversation on the porch. At the fair, Ethan helps Amma set up her pies to be judged then goes off to find Link. Liv meets up with them, but Ethan sends them ahead when he spots Lena. she says that her and John are just friend s and she is trying to help Ridley deal with being dark when she doesn’t want to be. Live comes back for Ethan and Lena gets jealous. Their makeup is short lived and Lena storms off. Ethan, Link, and Liv go to watch Amma in the pie contest. The Sisters ask Ethan about Lena and he lies, saying they are fine. Amma looks at Lena and Ethan notices that she, Ridley, and John are positioned in a triangle around the tent. They make bugs come out of everyone’s pies except Amma’s. One of the Sisters faints and Ethan sends Liv out before he goes to make sure his aunt is alright. He finds the three supernaturals by the Tunnel of Love ride entrance. He yells at Lena, and he and Link end up fighting John until Ridley breaks it up. The three casters disappear and Ethan and Link go in and look for a secret door. Ethan decides that he is going to look for Lena in the tunnels. He hears her say goodbye to him. Ethan and Link go the the DAR building and make their way down into the caster library. Marina isn’t there, but Ethan feels like he knows where he is going. He hears a girl laughing and follows the sound to find Liv in a study lying on a bed. Marian is there in Macon’s study/bedroom with Liv and she explains that Liv is a keeper in training. They tell Ethan that he is a wayward (bound to one person to show them their path) but they are unsure who he is bound to. Ethan uses a book of Macon’s to have a vision and Liv piggybacks. They see Macon breaking up with his mortal girlfriend because he is transforming into an incubus. Ethan and Link set out to find Lena and Live decides to join them, against Marian’s better judgment. Ethan leads the way through the tunnels until they arrive on a street. They go into a club and find Ridley. She tries to convince them to leave, but Ethan sees Lena dancing really close to John. He tries everything and says he won’t leave until she tells him she doesn’t want him there. She does and Ethan, Link, and Liv (who made Lena jealous again) leave. Outside the club, back in the tunnel that looks like an old time city street, they are confronted by a vex (called from the underground by dark caster to for the dirtiest work). Amma and the greats save them and she scolds them for being int he tunnels the whole time she leads them out. The next morning, Ethan goes to Ravenwood before work. He and Lena argue about each other’s suspicious behavior. Lena reveals that she ins not leaving with her family. he puts a cast on Ethan so he can’t tell them her plan. They say goodbye. Ethan stops by Macon’s room on his way out of Ravenwood. He touches a box and has a vision of Macon giving Jane the archlight and making her promise to use it if he attacks her. Ethan wakes up in his own bed. He is confused as to why both Abraham and Macon have been able to talk to him in the visions. Ethan goes to pick up his aunts for All Saint’s Day. They make him put red stickers on the things he wants when they die. In a box, he finds a picture of Ravenwood in 1865. The Sisters talk about Abraham. Mercy and Grace swear that they saw Abraham’s ghost behind the church a few weeks ago. Ethan helps the Sisters to the graveyard and then they dismiss him. After hanging out with Link and moping over caster girls, Ethan goes to his mother’s grave. His dad gives him some time alone, but Marian shows up She gives him a box that contains the Archlight that Macon gave to Lila “Jane” Evers (his mom). Macon and Lila were in love. Marian explains that Macon and Lila fell in love in college. When they had to split, she was heartbroken. He moved back to Gatlin. Macon’s mom requested a keeper in Gatlin, and Lila took the job, living in the tunnels. Ethan’s dad was the one that made her whole again. Lila continued searching for a way for casters and mortals to be together. Ethan dreams of Lena and wakes up to have a vision of her running away with John and Ridley. They are looking for the Great Barrier (a place where light and dark doesn’t matter). He takes the archlight and leaves to go talk to Liv. When he arrives, Liv explains to him the difference between caster and mortal constellations. Ethan finds that the southern star (caster equivalent to the mortal north star) is missing. Ethan explains his vision and “Seventeen Moons.” Liv thinks that Sarafine is raising the claiming moon. They decide to find Lena together. Liv and Ethan sneak Link out of school and tell him what is going on. The three of them go to the fair grounds to find the runnel entrance that Lena, Ridley, and John had used under the Tunnel of Love ride. Liv finds the door and Link is able to open it with garden sheers. The archlight leads Ethan where they need to go in the tunnels until they pop out in Savannah, Georgia, which is where his aunt lives. After wandering around for a while, they find Aunt Caroline’s house because Aunt Del is standing on the step. She was hoping Lena would be with him. they go inside and Aunt Carolina says that someone broke in and rummaged through the attic. They go to investigate and Aunt Del takes them through time. They see Lena, Ridley, and John going through Ethan’s mom’s stuff, looking for the way to the Great Barrier without the star. Then they see Lila write a note and put it in a trunk. Back in their own time, they find the letter to Macon, warning that Abraham is alive and working with Sarafine, dated a month before she died. There is also a Ravenwood family tree with names crossed off in Lila’s journal. He tears out the last page with some writing in a foreign language and goes down to the guest room. He has another vision of Lena and John talking about how they are freaks, even amongst their own kind. When he returns, Liv comes into the room to comfort him. There is an attraction, but neither of them wants to get hurt. Ethan wakes up from the glow of the archlight. He finds Liv on the porch and she points out a caster falling star. They get Link and Liv leads the way to a cemetery. They get over the wall and past the guards to find Amma, Arelia (Macon’s mom), and Twyla (Macon’s Aunt). Twyla is a necromancer and raises the sheer (ghost) of Lila. She warns Ethan about the seventeenth moon which will be the last if darkness prevails. Amma tells Ethan what really happened on Lena’s birthday. He runs off to comprehend the situation and has another vision. Macon gets the archlight from his mom and she teaches him the words to trap and free an incubus. Amma, Arelia, and Twyla send them back off to find Lena to let her know that she still has a choice between light and dark. Back in the tunnels, they are faced with the exact same fork they saw before. The archlight isn’t working, so Link decides to take the sunny path. Along the way, they run into Aunt Prue (one of the Sisters) and Thelma (her helper). Aunt Prue has been adding to the family map of the tunnels and gives it to Ethan to help him find Lena. They continue south. Further down the path, they are confronted by Hunting (Macon’s brother) and his blood pack as well as Larkin. Ridley influences them to leave and starts leading the group to Lena. Ridley was unable to tell Lena that Sarafine and Abraham are waiting for her at the Great Barrier. They continue through the woods, stoping for a moment so Link can urinate. Ethan notices that archlight flashing. He calls Liv by his nickname for Lena (“L”). Ridley uses her siren power to threaten him, a warning not to hurt her cousin. Liv comes to his defense, but all of a sudden, trees start coming down. Ethan tries kelting with Lena to see if it is her and she tells him to run. Sarafine’s apparition appears and is very pleased with herself. However she is very angry at Ridley and takes her powers away. When they stop to rest, Ethan can’t seem to sleep, so he starts reading Lena’s journal that Ridley gave him. Lena wrote about letting Ethan go so he could be happy. When he falls asleep, he dreams of her, but the dream turns into flames. the others wake him up. Ridley tires to deal with loosing her powers. Ethan sees John telling Lena how he also once loved a mortal when she wants to go back to help Ethan. After the vision, Ethan realizes that Lucille Ball is sending them to him. Ethan and Liv look at the map and realize that there is a caster “no fly zone” which is why the archlight stopped working at times. Ethan puts a piece of his mom’s paper over the map and an island appears (the Great Barrier). The exit the tunnels and find a narrow bridge to cross to the island where the Great Barrier is. The archlight is affecting Ethan and he keeps slipping into visions. he sees his mother tell Macon that Abraham is alive. The incubus appears before them and gives the order for Lila’s death. Macon is able to save her temporarily. Liv tries to take the archlight after Ethan collapses, but he refuses to let go. They come to an incredibly thing fog. Ethan follow’s Lucille through. He wants nothing more than to be at the Great Barrier and experience both worlds. Ethan Finds Lena’s charm necklace on the shore. they come to a cave guarded by the blood incubuses and start thinking about going back for help. Ethan refuses, knowing there isn’t enough time. He puts the clues together and starts the cast to release Macon from the archlight. Liv has to finish it, ending her chances of becoming a keeper. Macon emerges with green eyes. Macon shares the last piece of his story with the group. Lila gave up Macon and put him in the archlight to save Ethan. However, the incubus part of him is dead and his is in the process of transforming into something else, something with the green eyes of a light caster. Unfortunately, the transformation is making him weak. Macon tries to piece together what he has missed since his “death.” Ridley got her orders from Sarafine rather than Abraham. She isn’t sure how John fits in, but he seems to be a true believer of the Great Barrier. Liv points out that there aren’t any records of him or any kind of incubus-caster hybrid. Macon plans to send the mortals into the cave alone because he is too weak. His sister, Leah, comes to help them even the odds. She has a large cat named Bade (and her mother gave Aunt Prue her cat, Lucille). Ethan trusts the succubus and they head into the cave to find Lena. Leah kills the two incubuses guarding the cave entrance. Ethan offers his friends an out, but they all decline. Sarafine is in the dark fire, the dark casters around her calling the claiming moon. Ethan spots Lena passed out. The casters around her are hoping she has already chosen to go dark. John carries Lena to Sarafine. Abraham is there with all of the vexes he summoned. Amma, Twyla, and Arelia show up to help, as well as Grandma. They get rid of the vexes, but that draws the attention of the dark casters and incubuses. The bad guys surround their group, but Macon has a sort of force field to protect them. Ethan gets down to Lena and tells her to claim herself. She argues that she isn’t ready. Ridley tells her to go light even though there is a possibility it could kill her. Lena claims herself and the moon takes Larkin and Twyla. Twyla’s sheer rises into the air and replaces the southern star. Macon calls out to Abraham when his grandfather appears, the threats start. Macon explains that John, who is now missing, is an experiment; The son of an evo (can become human for a period of time) and an incubus. Abraham leaves, taking Sarafine, Hunting, and the Book of Moons with him. Lena has broken the order of things and there will be consequences for her being both light and dark. But right now, she is happy to have her uncle and cousin. Ethan can’t sleep and Lena appears in his room. He gives her back her charm necklace with his mother’s ring on the chain. He gives Lena Lucille’s tag to see through the cat’s eyes. She knows her true name, but decides to stay Lena. Link wakes up Ethan and Lena because he was bitten by John in the fight. He is transitioning into an incubus, but they aren’t sure what he will be like because John was different. Ridley joins their little party and is mad that John bit Link (and also that she has to go to school). Ethan and Lena spend as much time together as they can. They enlist the help of Link and Ridley to bury the archlight in Macon’s empty grave. A man in a white suite and string tie watches them run off. He rips out just before the sun rises. Ethan misses his iPod playing “Eighteen Moons.” Ridley took over Macon’s old room (he took a different one) and redecorated it. Link calls, but Ridley has another incubus on her mind. She takes out a glowing sphere and counts down from three - a decision made.

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My name is Michelle, and I like to read... a lot. As I read a book, I take notes after each chapter. When I finish the book, I type out a summary and post it in this blog.It has taken me a while to find a process that really works. Some of my older summaries will be short and just summarize the overall plot.